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After almost 2 years, 4k commits, over 50 pre-releases, and a lot of help we are excited to announce the release of Babel 7. It's been almost 3 years since the release of Babel 6! There's a lot of moving parts so please bear with us in the first weeks of release. Babel 7 is a huge release: we've made it faster, created an upgrade tool, JS configs, config "overrides", more options for size/minification, JSX Fragments, TypeScript, new proposals, and more...

The Page Lifecycle API brings app lifecycle features common on mobile operating systems to the web. Browsers are now able to safely freeze and discard background pages to conserve resources, and developers can safely handle these interventions without affecting the user experience...

This single line of code is a front door to all the private state of my code and the chance to modify object prototypes with some nasty code. This single line is the same as an eval. It's bad...

Chrome 67 changed desktop Client Hints for privacy concerns. Mobile users download 42% less bytes with w_auto and Client Hints...

Chrome DevTools come with an array of features that help developers debug their apps effectively, and therefore find and fix the bugs…

NEL is a new web platform spec that we’re working on in the W3C’s Web Performance Working Group. With NEL, you can instruct user agents to collect the same set of information that would appear in your server logs. Those instructions would apply to all requests and since the data is collected directly by the user agent, you should have visibility into all of your clients’ connection requests, not just those that made it to your serving infrastructure...

ReportingObserver gives developers insight into what their code is doing in the wild. ReportingObserver surfaces information on issues like deprecations and interventions, messages that were previously only available in the DevTools console...

Open source software is everywhere. On phones, laptops, watches and even household appliances. The appetite for this type of free, public code is ferocious, but a scarcity of resources to maintain some of the less visible software, on which other software is dependent, has left key parts of the ecosystem vulnerable...

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 68 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux, the biggest change in this release (besides security fixes) is that HTTP Sites are now marked as "Not Secure", ...

The Windows 10 April 2018 Update introduced an all-new IndexedDB manager for the Microsoft Edge DevTools, allowing you to inspect your database, sort your data, and delete it-all from the Debugger...

CSS Grid is groundbreaking new technology for web design. In her newest Layout Land video, Jen Simmons explains the 9 Biggest Mistakes people are making as they adopt this new ...

One of the most popular uses for VR today is 360° images and video. These are easy to discover and share online, and you don't need to learn any new ...

Wildcard certificates will be offered free of charge via our upcoming ACME v2 API endpoint. We will initially only support base domain validation via DNS for wildcard certificates, but may explore additional validation options over time...

GitHub has partnered with Let’s Encrypt, which is a free, open and automated certificate authority (CA). The goal of this initiative is to secure the web by making it very easy to obtain a free, trusted SSL certificate. Moreover, it lets web servers run a piece of software that not only gets a valid SSL certificate, but will also configure your web server and automatically renew the certificate when it expires...

Microsoft announces the Microsoft Professional Program in AI, the latest learning track teaching artificial intelligence skills open to the public.

This specification defines an API enabling the creation and use of strong, attested, scoped, public key-based credentials by web applications, for the purpose of strongly authenticating users...

AV1 is a new general-purpose video codec developed by the Alliance for Open Media. The alliance began development of this new codec using Google's VPX codecs, Cisco's Thor codec, and Mozilla's/Xiph.Org's Daala codec as starting point. AV1 leapfrogs the performance of VP9 and HEVC, making it a next-next-generation codec. The AV1 format is and will always be royalty-free with a permissive FOSS license...

Today, let’s have a look at the TOP 10 new features in MySQL 8.0 that will improve DBA’s life. To shrink the list to 10 only items wasn’t an easy task, but here is the top 10...

So you're curious in learning this new thing called Reactive Programming, particularly its variant comprising of Rx, Bacon.js, RAC, and others...

Rather than exploring features first, it is helpful to put them into context and to understand how they came to exist. An introduction to GraphQL and lessons learned from the last 60 years of API development...

Today W3C releases HTML 5.2. This is the second revision of HTML5, following last year’s HTML 5.1 Recommendation...

Firefox Quantum – version 57 – introduced number of changes to the network requests scheduler. One of them is using data of the Tracking Protection database to delay load of scripts from tracking domains when possible during the time a page is actively loading and rendering...

Windows Insider build from now on enables Service Workers by default in Microsoft Edge for the first time. This is an exciting milestone for for the web...